That just sucks, except if you have a cardboard box or something thick and solid to cover the windows

Well, if you have a large amount of people and limitid surface area, up is the only way to go. It's hideous, but I can't think of an alternative that doesn't involve forcibly removing people.

I was confused at what's I'm looking at until I read the title, insane

Holy moly, I've never seen that many vehicles on a road before O_o

Not a single green droplet of colour....

We are clearly a infection on the Earth

Not all of the 20 million people live that way. That's are beautiful gardens, parks, wildlife sanctuaries, and forests in and around Delhi

We are the single most destructive species to ever exist, poisoning the earth, the water, the air. Roughly 10% of existing life, ( plants, insects included), go extinct over a decade. Sad to say but with humanity overrunning the earth we need to come up, as a collective, greed, corruption, consumerism needs to be set aside for there to be a future!

It reminds me of Dredd.

They still have the plague it's such a shithole literally

This looks like a picture from the post apocalypse...

looks like the death star surface

😢

It looks like dry skin. The Earth is becoming itchy as a result of our actions... We will pay a price when she decides to scratch.

Oh, the misery!

Till ‘third world countries’ are able, taught and supportive of ecological life issues, the whole world is .. f’d

Gross

This is why humanity is doomed

Nope. Just nope... this is utterly insane.

It's ALL housing?

"Under the bridge downtown.. is where I drew some blood"

The vastness is astonishing

why even bother to hang up another sign? No one will read them ever

Well, that bridge is the most important transport link between Europe and Asia, no wonder it's busy.

"I live in the favela, I believe we can change it for the better" - heard this back in 2014 during the World Cup in Brazil. Loved it.

Not all is lost. Second picture is the Ransom Gillis Mansion. Believe it or not, this one is saved! See what is looks like now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_Gillis_House

It's as if some nasty alien ship landed.

We are clearly a infection on the Earth

Interestingly enough, there are probably another row of houses behind these ones that were all pissed off when the smaller red-roofed buildings were built too. This is why local government zoning rules need to be in concrete and not influenced by developers throwing huge amounts of money at them.

Can you imagine an elevator being out of order ?

Beautiful sky and greenery, the trash tho...

They still got a beach, water and trees. Not so bad.

The interesting thing for me, is that even with all those buildings there is a ton of green in the picture. Far more than you'd get in most cities.

I guess they didn't want to move when the freeway was being built

This looks like something straight out of a game

Reminds me of the robot fighting games from the film A.I.

Tokyo is both fascinating and nightmarish. I would really like to visit this city, but living there must be hell.

I find it cool, tbh. A great photo.

Vorkuta, town in Russia. "Vorkuta became one of the most well known Gulags, it gained a reputation of being one of the worst in the Soviet Union. About 2 Million Prisoners had gone to Vorkutlag from 1932 until the closure in 1962, the amount of deaths in the camp were estimated to be 200,000" - Wikipedia

Phone lines...

Somewhere, over the rainbow... it's even grayer.

"Vedi Napoli e poi muori" used to mean after seeing Naples you will never see anything more beautiful, until your dying day. Nowadays, not so much.

How to ruin a perfectly good city, American style.

This gives me "Sleeping Dogs" video game vibe.

Brutalism. Love it or hate it, no third option. I kinda live it when there's not too much of it.

Blade Runner vibes

Did the building go up before or after the freeway though? I can't comment on LA but there are some fairly major highways here that had no homes near them 20 years ago, but now they're building housing estates up to the highway boundaries. If someone chooses to develop the land and people buy the houses you can't blame the highway since it already existed.

Didn't expect for Jakarta to look like this, I thought it's a great and beautiful country (I even live in Indonesia)